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A Brief Introduction to The New Community Rules: Marketing on the.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The New Community Rules talks about the important role social media has begun playing in our lives. Fortunately, we have social media communities to inspire us. Access to these social media communities is free. The best part? The only substantial cost for you is time.

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How Embedded Social News Grew My Content, Traffic, and Engagement, and Saves Me Time [Case Study]

ProBlogger

With Guitar Shop TV (GSTV), I set out to create an online community for passionate guitar fans and music lovers around the world. As creator of GSTV, I was looking for a social news platform that could deliver top guitar content from across the Web directly to our blog and allow users to participate on a social level.

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Social You Should Know—April Social Media Updates

Ignite Social Media

What we learned from that experience is that many people in Congress do not understand how social networks work and that Facebook has a lot of action items to follow up on. New data came out this month from Pew Research Center about how many links are being shared by humans versus bots. Twitter Can’t Escape Bots.

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Tips on How PR Pros Can Create Social Media Success

Mindjumpers

Develop social news backgrounders. Reporters also have less time than ever to make thorough research on a given topic and therefore they might appreciate content that makes their job easier. It’s good to give something back – and this will also make the community recognize and value your brand in a much more positive way.

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Ultimate Social Media Image Sizing Guide for 2017 + Adobe Photoshop Templates

Pam Moore

They also invest time to learn and understand the requirements of each of the social networks and how they can create images that appear in the social news feeds, cover image placeholders and more in the best possible way. We do the research and update the guide so you don’t have to.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

As she notes in her introduction, Li’s book is organized around four main themes: Research: start by using search and social media monitoring tools to discover where your customers and prospects are congregating. Don’t automatically assume they use the most popular social networks. . Social Events (e.g.,

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social media gives businesses on small budgets the ability to find out what people are saying about them (and others) in their industry, without paying large sums on market research. With your ear to the ground on social media, you’ll be the first to know if your product is working or if changes need to be made.